Death Party

Death Party
EP by The Gun Club
Released April 13, 1983
Recorded January-February 1983
Studio Blank Tapes Studios, New York
Genre Post-punk, roots rock
Length 19:43
Label Animal Records (original release)
Sympathy for the Record Industry (2004 US reissue)
Cooking Vinyl (2009 European reissue)
Producer Chris Stein, Jeffrey Lee Pierce
The Gun Club chronology
Miami
(1982)		 Death Party
(1983)		 The Las Vegas Story
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Death Party is an EP by punk blues group The Gun Club, released in 1983.[2] It is the only official release of the Jim Duckworth and Dee Pop line up of the band which existed for about eight months.

A scheduled recording session for Tex & the Horseheads, the band Jeffrey Lee Pierce had put together around his girlfriend Linda/Texacala Jones was going to go unused. So the Gun Club filled the booking and recorded the Death Party EP with a bassist called Jimmy Joe Uliana who was a friend of Dee Pop's. Patricia Morrison was the bassist but didn't play on the EP because of the recording session's spur of the moment nature.[3]

Death Party was produced by Chris Stein, although he came to the sessions after most of the recordings were completed.

Track listing

All tracks written by Jeffrey Lee Pierce.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."The House on Highland Avenue"3:10
2."The Lie"3:16
3."The Light of the World"3:07
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Death Party"5:53
2."Come Back Jim"3:50

Personnel

The Gun Club

with:

  • "Texas" Linda Jones - backing vocals and screams
  • Jimmy Joe Uliana - bass except on "The Lie"
Technical
  • Joe Arlotta - session engineer
  • Clayton Clark - cover artwork

References

  1. ↑ Jurek, Thom. "Death Party". Allmusic. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ Green, Jim; Sprague, David (2007). "Gun Club". Trouser Press. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ http://www.furious.com/perfect/gunclub2.html
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